Peter Pan, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF, sentence 6
The brushwood closes behind them, as silently as sand into which a mole has dived.
Who acts: brushwood · What happens: close, dive · To what, where: mole, sand
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brushwood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brushwood | det |
| 2 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closes | nsubj |
| 3 | closes | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 closes | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sand | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 silently | advmod |
| 8 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 10 sand | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 sand | case |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closes | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 dived | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mole | det |
| 14 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dived | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dived | aux |
| 16 | dived | dive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sand | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 closes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present | the brushwood | behind scouts = scout | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dive | present · perfect · passive | a mole | sand | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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